Gnarled Effigy

Artifact

(4), Tap: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

JuQ on That Girl Is Poison - budget Hapatra

4 years ago

Witherscale Wurm taking wither damage won't trigger Hapatra, so there is not much point for him in he deck.

Are you really creating enough tokens to make Bloodflow Connoisseur , Bloodthrone Vampire and Carrion Feeder worthwhile? In my experience with myhapatra deck, the snakes are way to valuable to be sacrificed for a mere +1/+1 counter or +2/+2 until EoT on some creature with no evasion.

Fevered Convulsions , and Gnarled Effigy look terribly unefficient, for mana for a -1/-1 is way too much. I used to run Serrated Arrows and Trigon of Corruption but I ended up cutting them, maybe they could work fine in your deck as you are going strong on Proliferate. Now I'm testing Serrated Biskelion but I'm not completely sold on it, you know you never get to draw the cards you are trying out...

Decimator of the Provinces is also way too costly, even if you emerge it, and all the trouble just for a wide +2/+2 trample; a simple Overrun would give you a better bang for your mana. Predatory Rampage will wipe most of your oponent's creatures and Revenge of the Hunted is a one player board wipe. I also find Loyal Guardian to be an underrated card to spread counters on your creatures.
Canker Abomination will only get you a snake no matter how many counters it gets, so in the best case scenario it would be a 5/5 with one snake for four mana, its not really worth the deck slot. There are many creatures in the Amonkhet block that will do just that but better.

on the evasion department I would definetly cut Tawnos's Wand , Hot Soup has a bit of a drawback, but Hapatra only has toughness 2, so it won't be a big difference anyway and the card is really funny. Trailblazer's Boots is a bit more expensive, but I would still consider it a budget card.

These kind of decks are supper weak against board wipes, so I'd encourage you to include Golgari Charm or Wrap in Vigor .The best card for that task would be Heroic Intervention but it's getting more and more expensive every day.

If you want to check my Hapatra deck, it's this one Hapatra's death hosts

_Kane_ on

6 years ago

Hey, thanks for the link. That will definitely help me with my lists and future builds.

The Command Zone had this deck featured in a episode of "The Command Zone" and their game series "Game Knights"

Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons - JLK | Game Knights #6

Here are a couple suggestions I found while researching the Hapata build.

Flourishing Defenses - More token generation.

Soul Snuffers - Very similar to Archfiend of Ifnir

Midnight Banshee - Wither, plus a great upkeep trigger

Crumbling Ashes - Similar trigger on a harder to remove enchantment and a lower CMC.

Serrated Arrows

Vhati il-Dal - A great way to two card combo kill tough creatures.

Eternal Witness - E witness for life.

Craterhoof Behemoth - A perfect finisher for all of those nasty deathtouch tokens.

Glistening Oil - Pseudo-recurring single target removal.

Eldrazi Monument - Another synergy card with the tokens from Hapatra.

Archfiend of Ifnir -The aforementioned Deadly Demon.

Woodfall Primus - Persist and a great ETB trigger.

Ulvenwald Tracker - An option.

Cards I would remove:

Intimidation - A very expensive enchantment that doesn't grant you much synergy as I don't think you will be wanting to attack often. Rather rest on your defenses until the timing is perfect. I.E. Craterhoof Behemoth or Overrun

Ferropede - Cannot justify taking a card slot. IMO.

Patron of the Orochi - Run Seedborn Muse if you are looking for this effect due to snake offering not "offering" much to reduce the cost of the creature.

Gnarled Effigy - I think you would be better suited by Trigon of Corruption if you are looking for this type of effect.

Tainted Strike - How are you going to get the last points of Infect damage?

Daedalus19876 on Hapatra Poisoned The Well

7 years ago

I'd put in Wickerbough Elder over something like Gnarled Effigy or Liliana, Death Wielder (simply too slow IMO).

How do you feel about your removal here? You're missing Beast Within at the very least, which is something you should fix ;)

Nevinyrral_Mayor_of_Urborg on Hapatra Poisoned The Well

7 years ago

Daedalus19876 Erebos, God of the Dead is some decent card draw and its not hard to get the devotion. That way I dont have to run Greed. Maybe Gnarled Effigy as a substitute?

Thunderbumper on

8 years ago

Probably too many Gnarled Effigy 's too as again you're not likely to spend 8 mana for 2 -1/-1 counters during an actual match.